Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?, sentence 16

Real hunting cats are almost silent: soft paw pads and claws pulled back inside the paws let them walk without clicking, unlike a dog.

Who acts: Real hunting cats, soft paw pads, animators · What happens: be, pull back, let, walk, click · To what, where: soft paw pads, paws, animators

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tom and Jerry: do real cats really chase mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real hunting cats, soft paw pads, animators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cats	amod
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cats	compound
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 silent	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 silent	advmod
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pads	punct
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pads	amod
9	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pads	compound
10	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 let	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 claws	cc
12	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pads	conj
13	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pads	acl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 pulled	advmod
15	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 paws	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 paws	det
17	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pulled	obl
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 silent	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 clicking	mark
22	clicking	click	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 walk	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dog	punct
24	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	26 dog	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 clicking	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 silent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Real hunting cats			almost, silent property	tree rules
2	pull back	participle		soft paw pads and claws not said here	the paws		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	present	soft paw pads and claws	animators = animator			tree rules
4	walk	infinitive	animators = animator not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	click	gerund	animators = animator not said here			unlike a dog	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:118-tom-and-jerry-do-real-cats-chase-mice.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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